A six-week Japanese study found that encouragement from both a human partner and the social robot RoBoHoN was linked to ...

At an event in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, UBTech Robotics launched the world's first mass–produced ultra–realistic humanoid robots. These Uworld U1 androids are covered with 'biomimetic skin' ...

A robot does not need to feel emotions for a person to become emotionally attached to it. That is one of the clearest lessons emerging from research on social robots. People can name them, talk to ...

Every morning, the first voice to greet Deborah Humphrey is one that calls her “nugget.” It belongs to ElliQ, an AI companion robot that Humphrey, 73, received through her local New York State Office ...

When a human and a robot share a workbench, the biggest bottleneck is not the machine. It is the human brain, forced to ...

The Chinese robotics company UBTech has launched the U1, the first mass-produced ultrarealistic human robot. This marks the first time anyone has manufactured and sold a humanoid robot that actually ...

The future of surgery just scrubbed in. In a groundbreaking medical first, robots designed to move and function like humans have performed surgery on a live patient, successfully completing two ...

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled ...